Laravel Directory Structure Change default app directory
Example
There are use cases when you might want to rename your app directory to something else. In Laravel4 you could just change a config entry, here's one way to do it in Laravel5.
In this example we'll be renaming the app directory to src.
Override Application class
The directories name app is hardcoded into the core Application class, so it has to be overridden. Create a new file Application.php. I prefer to keep mine in the src directory (the one we'll be replacing app with), but you can place it elsewhere.
Here's how the overridden class should look like. If you want a different name, just change the string src to something else.
namespace App;
class Application extends \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
{
/**
* @inheritdoc
*/
public function path($path = '')
{
return $this->basePath . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'src' . ($path ? DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $path : $path);
}
}
Save the file. We're done with it.
Calling the new class
Open up bootstrap/app.php and locate
$app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application(
realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
);
We'll be replacing it with this
$app = new App\Application(
realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
);
Composer
Open up your composer.json file and change autoloading to match your new location
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "src/"
}
And finally, in the command line run composer dump-autoload and your app should be served from the src directory.
